Báo cáo y học: "Pica in iron deficiency: a case series" pptx

... be strongly associated with iron deficiency anemia, and in the majority of cases the unusual eating and chewing behavior disappears upon iron supplementation [1,6,10,11]. Several hypotheses exist about ... cell anemia readily ingested foam rubber, and Kushner et al. pre- sented two cases where patients developed pagophagia after gastric bypass surgery [2,5]. Since iron deficiency may...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... with tamponade and include: exertional dyspnea, chest pain, fatigue and palpitations. Asympto- matic pericardial effusions are usually diagnosed on rou- tine chest x-ray, echocardiography, computerized tomography ... cardiac surgery. It may also occur as a result of ches t trauma, mediastinal neoplasms, mediastinal tuber- culosis, mediastinal radiotherapy, and thromb osis of the subclavian...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... Sabry Address: Prince Salman Center for Kidney Diseases, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Email: Khalid A Al-Saran* - khalid_aln@yahoo.co.uk; Alaa A Sabry - asabry20@yahoo.com * Corresponding author ... Central Page 1 of 4 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Medical Case Reports Open Access Case report Pregnancy in dialysis patients: a case series Khalid A Al-Sar...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... no clinical indications of active pulmonary or cardiac involve- ment, and a brief neurological examination detected no abnormalities. Nuchal rigidity was absent. A laboratory examination revealed anemia ... underlines the possibility that H. parainfluenzae endocarditis may develop rapidly. Thus, awareness of the imaging characteristics of the pathogen may enhance early appropriate diagnos...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:20

... etanercept therapy w as started. He developed progressively increasing aches in his left calf after one and a half years of therapy. A Doppler scan revealed tibial DVT. He did not smoke and had ... normal. In addition, these patients were not on any medications that are associated with hypercoagulablity. Although a causal relationship cannot be established, the events had a tempor...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... They may also present with gastrointestinal bleeding (6%) and intestinal obstruction or perforation (10%) [14]. Gastrointestinal bezoars can be easily diagnosed in most patients. Plain X-rays, ... symp- toms. In the stomach, they are associated with anorexia, bloating, early satiety, dyspepsia, malaise, weakness, weight loss, headaches, and a feeling of fullness or heavi- ness in the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... Ming-Yang Wang, Po-Huang Lee and Ming-Tsan Lin* Address: National Taiwan University Hospital, Department of Surgery, Taipei, Taiwan Email: Jin-Ming Wu - kptkptkpt@yahoo.com.tw; Ming-Yang Wang ... because a fistula may form years after surgery. Case presentation: We describe two cases of gastrojejunocolic fistula in men aged 67 and 60 who both initially presented with watery diarrhea and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... conventionally using Kellgren and Lawrence as well as for knee size using the tibial plateau and MRI scans from a 0.18-Tesla extremity scanner that gave fully automated measures of volume, surface area ... determining OA radiographically is a weakness and only early OA is included in the study. Results showed a 5% to 10% improvement in prediction using combined versus single biomark...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... Injury Pradipta Bhakta Address: Dept. of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman Email: Pradipta Bhakta - bhaktadr@gmail.com Abstract Comment on 'Capnography ... 'Capnography as an aid in localizing the phrenic nerve in brachial plexus surgery. Technical note' Bhagat H, Agarwal A, Sharma MS Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripher...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... oxygenation adversely. Bicarbonate therapy in patients with DKA appeared to be associated with increased obtundation and profound cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) acidosis in an early study [47]. Apossibleexplanationforthisobservationmaybethe preferential ... with bicarbonate administration were not evi- dent in actual case scenarios, and the overall physiologi- cal impact with such treatmen...

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